This.

But then again Rory has always been self absorbed and a jerk. Everyone around her treats her like a special snowflake. Which is why she’s really never developed into a fully-formed individual. Age 32 and still floundering and rudderless. I think most of the people who watched it in the original run didn’t notice…

Lazy writing is lazy writing. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought that this revival was written by the same group of writers that wrote the last season of The Good Wife.

I’m about their same age. Couldn’t it be like a lot of us where we thought we would take over the world and then didn’t?

I have limited patience for sullen teens on TV, so Jess grated on my nerves during most of the original series. However, in AYITL, he’s the only one who doesn’t coddle or try to rescue Rory. He gives her a pep talk, but basically tells her she needs to figure her shit out. For that, he is a hero and he should run…

but Dean was manipulative and needy... not okay.

Lorelai did say that Rory having an affair with a guy who’s engaged was “way sluttier” than having a one-night stand. She said it tongue-in-cheek, but there may have a been a hint of judgment there. Still, Lorelai was more condoning than anything else.

And she has no steady job or place to live, which worked for Lorelai because she was 16, but Rory is 32 and has offers she feels too good for.

Amy Sherman-Palladino’s ending would have been so terrible back in 2007. We would all have been furious at Rory for getting knocked up right out of college and derailing her career like that. At least now, even if unplanned, it’s different. She seems more ready. But seriously girl it is 2016, where was your IUD?

To be fair, Rory is chronologically 32 but she acts a lot more like a 22-year-old. Plus she’s still incredibly reliant on her family and it would have made more sense to me if Lorelai had at least given her a little side eye about it. 

Luke got weird. He drank the town Koolaid. I expected that after 9 years with Lorelai, he’d be a little different, but I missed the disdain for all thinks kooky.

And Rory turned down his proposal, so why is she getting all upset that he still plans to marry someone else now? And how did they reconnect? So many questions.

Meh, you can let your grown up kid make their own terrible decisions without condoning them.

This drove me crazy! I was always irked by the whole “we can eat 5,000 calories of sugar and trans fat a day and stay a size 4" thing but at least there was never any outright body shaming or fat phobia in the original series (or rather, I don’t recall there being any).

Speaking of making theme bigger assholes, was that whole “eww gross imperfect pool bodies!!” snarking by the pool necessary? Jesus I hated that so much I almost turned it off.

My theory is the Paul thing was set up to re-emphasize that Rory’s always been the center of her own bad decisions. Otherwise, it would be too easy to fall into the “Logan’s a sh*tbird for cheating on his fiance / Rory is a victim who was led on” conclusion. By setting her up early as a person who can treat people as…

All of this!

Seriously, they wanted us to think the forgetting about Paul subplot was quirky and funny but honestly, it made zero sense and just served to make Rory and Lorelai look like even bigger assholes.

I never loved the last season of the show for some of the same reasons. The drama felt forced and the characters seemed to be acting way more awful than they should. But I thought that was because Amy Sherman Palladino wasn’t involved after all the problems and disagreements.

i agree with most of this but def not the paris part? i dont think paris was ever trying to take over the world. she cared more about being queen of her domain, which she is

ASP REALLY NEEDS A NETWORK TO REIGN HER IN. SHE GREATLY NEEDED SOMEONE TO SAY ‘NO AMY, YOU CANT DO A 30 MINUTE MUSICAL IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SERIES’